A Bellevue garage and covered front entry, both covered in old peeling paint, ground down and coated in matching Flint flake polyurea.
The garage floor in this Bellevue home had been painted once, a long time ago. You could see where it was wearing through to grey concrete, and a crack wandered across the middle of the slab. Out front, the covered entry walk had its own story: a coat of red porch paint that was flaking off in chips around the edges and along the planting bed.
The homeowner wanted both spaces to look like they belonged to the same house. So this became a garage floor coating in Bellevue with a matching front entry, both finished in Certified Penntek polyurea with Flint flake.
The free consultation was in June 2026. Nicole checked both surfaces the way we check every slab.
Paint like this is a common DIY fix, and it looks fine for a season or two. The trouble is it only sits on the surface. Water, tires and foot traffic work under it, and it starts to peel. Anything new put on top of it would peel with it.
The garage was done first, in August 2026, and the entry walk followed later that month. The sequence was the same in both places:
Grinding is the step people skip when they paint a floor themselves. It is also the step that decides whether a coating stays put. Our installation process page walks through each stage in more detail.
Flint Enviroflake is a mix of tan, grey and dark chips. It sits nicely against the warm beige siding and the stacked stone columns at the front door, and in the garage it reads clean against cream walls and white trim.
Using one color for both spaces ties the house together. You walk from the entry, through the door and into the garage, and the floor feels continuous. It also hides the dirt bike tracks and the gravel that comes in from the driveway until there's time to sweep.
Paint and typical epoxy both rely on a mechanical grip on the surface. The Penntek basecoat forms a chemical bond with the concrete, helped by a silane adhesion promoter, with over 1,300 PSI of bond strength. Before the coating comes up, the concrete will come up.
The topcoat is non-porous, so oil, mud and road grime wipe off instead of soaking in. You can see how the system handles impact in the Penntek Hammer Test. If you are dealing with an old coating of your own, our post on coating over an existing floor explains why we grind it off first.
Every floor gets a limited lifetime warranty backed by Penntek, and we register it on every job.
Bellevue gets the same long wet season as the rest of the Eastside. A covered entry stays damp at the edges, and a garage takes rain off every car that pulls in. That is why moisture testing comes first, and why surfaces that see weather need a coating that flexes with the slab instead of cracking.
See more of our garage floor coatings in Bellevue, or compare this job with a Bellevue garage we finished in Smoke. For entries, patios and walkways, our guide to coating concrete beyond the garage is a good start.
Not directly. We diamond grind the paint off first so the polyurea can bond to bare concrete. Coating over loose paint means the new floor is only as strong as the old one.
Yes. The same Certified Penntek polyurea system works on covered entries, walkways and steps. Picking one flake color for both makes the house feel connected from the street.
It is the moisture content the meter found in the concrete at the consultation. We test every slab and record the reading before we plan the install, so we know whether the floor needs a moisture barrier before the basecoat.
Have a painted floor that's starting to peel? Book a free in-home quote or call 425-226-6085, and we'll test your concrete and bring flake samples.
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